What im trying to do is something like this maybe in my profile.php file


//site thumbnail check////////////
$filename = "sitethumbs/".$user['login'].".jpg";
if (file_exists($filename)) {
} else {
$t->assign('sitethumbs', $filename);
}
/////end////////////



then I have a file called viewprofile.html which uses the profile.php with
smarty templates so in this file I use


{if ($sitethumbs)}
<img src="members/sitethumbs/thumbs/{$user.login}.jpg" border="0"
width="145" alt="Visit {$user.login}'s website">
{/if}



Basicly in the template file it is always showing ($sitethumbs)